Lumbee

Lumbee,

descendants of Native Americans whose language belonged to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languagesNative American languages,languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent......Click the link for more information.). The ancestors of the Lumbee occupied the coast of the SE United States and were part of the Eastern Woodlands cultureEastern Woodlands culture,term used to refer to Native American societies inhabiting the eastern United States. The earliest Woodland groups were the Adena and Hopewell, who lived in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys between 800 B.C. and A.D. 800......Click the link for more information. area. Generally friendly to the Europeans, they taught the settlers their methods of fishing, hunting, and farming and introduced them to many of their foods. They were one of the few Eastern tribes to escape removal to Indian Territory in the 19th cent., but were pressed into service by the Confederacy during the Civil War. They were formerly known as the Croatan Indians and the Robeson County Indians. In 1990 there were over 50,000 Lumbee in the United States, many of mixed Native American, African, and European ancestry; they are centered in Robeson co., North Carolina. The tribe's focus on education is embodied in Pembroke State Univ., founded in 1887 as a Lumbee college and now part of the Univ. of North Carolina system.

The Phase I of the grant will fund safety studies of the Lumee technology, and Phase II will fund a clinical study of the technology at the University of California San Francisco.

Profusa's first medical product, the Lumee Oxygen Sensing System, is aimed at being the only long-term monitoring technology that prompts therapeutic action to ensure tissue oxygen levels persist throughout the PAD treatment and healing process.

Pending CE Mark, the Lumee system is slated to be available in Europe in 2016 for use by vascular surgeons and wound-healing specialists.

The St Chris mums have been in full natter mode ever since the restaurant opened at Saar Mall, building on its success at Lumee Street Cafe at Al A'ali Complex, the popular cafe-cum-deli where the GulfWeekly team recently met up en-masse to celebrate reporter Kristian's birthday and that of my daughter, Immy's, which both fell on the same day.

The big attraction nowadays in Bahrain, which I touched upon in last week's Eating Out review, is the growing demand for 'sharing plates' and Lumee Saar Kitchen does not disappoint with an impressive collection of cold and hot dishes for tables to dive into.

The Crispy Fried Calamari (BD3) was spectacular and mixed superbly with the Rocket with Mixed Berries Lumee Salad (BD2.

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